Writer's individualism in the digital age: against indifference and resignation




The public knowledge, a little over a year ago, of the situation that some retired creators were experiencing for reconciling pension and collection of copyrights, placed on the board of the cultural debate, perhaps for the first time, the living and working conditions of the most of the writers of our country. And, indirectly, it highlighted a need only addressed in a specific way or simply excluded from the catalog of objectives of the writer: I am referring to the defense of their own interests, the positioning, as essential subjects of the editorial process (of the "industry ”) And as the main affected by the changes, some radicals, which is generating the expansion of the digital world, not to mention other challenges that are not so new but of undoubted interest that have been part of the catalog of copyright claims for decades. In the XXI century, the reality of the writer it is little known by society. It is even ignored by the readers themselves, who do not usually stop to think about the circumstances in which the books they buy or borrow from the library are created or the "working" and vital conditions of their creators.

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Source: newtribuna.es

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